In the call, a woman tells a dispatcher she is at Burr Pond and that her son is drowning at the state park beach.

“He was just running in,” the woman says. “He just went under.”

The woman tells the dispatcher the boy is white, has brown hair and was wearing blue swim trunks. She says she saw last saw him about five minutes before making the call and that he went under in “five feet deep of water” about 20 feet out from the shore of the pond.

She says no one else is with her when she is making the call.

“He just went under and I can’t find him,” said the woman.

Telling her that this is a dangerous situation, the dispatcher advises the woman not to go into the water and to keep everyone else away. He also tells her to have someone up at the road to flag down emergency responders.

The woman gives the dispatcher a last name that sounds like “Courier.”

Anyone with information about call is encouraged to contact EnCon Police by calling 860-424-3333.

EnCon Sgt. Tate Begley held a press conference regarding the call Thursday afternoon just off the beach at Burr Pond.

Police traced the call back to a TracFone found in the women’s room in a bathhouse at the park, which, as determined by phone records, had been lost prior to the call being made and disconnected. The call is presumed to have been made from the bathroom, due to a slight echo detectable in the audio, he said.

The touchscreen phone is currently being checked for fingerprints, Begley said, and was found with no contacts or photos in its memory. There is no timeline for the results of the fingerprint check at this time.

Interviews in connection with the case are also currently being conducted, he said, and a voice analysis of the call is also planned.

The department is hoping someone from the public can provide further information to aid the investigation, Begley said.

“We’re hoping that it’s going to shake the tree, if you will, to bring forward anybody that might recognize the voice or be familiar with the incident and report any associated criminal activity with this call,” said Begley.

The call could lead to the perpetrator being charged with misuse of 911, falsely reporting the death of a person — a felony — and interfering with an officer, Begley said. The investigation currently indicates that the caller acted alone, but Begley said that theory is not confirmed at this time.

The Torrington Fire Department, Torrington Police Department, state police, EnCon police, the Goshen Volunteer Fire Department and Goshen dive team responded to the call, Begley said, and were on site for approximately three hours.

No complainant was found at the park on July 6, Begley said, which is “extremely rare.”

Begley said it is assumed that the caller watched the emergency response, as he said is typical in such matters.

“It’s extremely dangerous for these hoax calls to be placed because you’re taking away valuable first responder assets and resources from all areas of the northwest corner of the state and applying them to a false pretense,” said Begley. “It also engages police offers to drive at high speeds, fire and rescue — they want to get here as quick as they can to try to save what was presumed to be a three-year-old drowning child.”

Just before the July 4 holiday weekend, the DEEP banned the possession and consumption of alcohol at Burr Pond to address public safety issues at the park.

Burr Pond State Park is a popular park in Torrington with a beach and swimming area used by many Connecticut residents and visitors from nearby states, the DEEP said.

During the past few summers, EnCon Police and DEEP State Parks staff have observed increased crowds and an increased number of incidents, officials said in the release. Many of the incidents have been driven by excessive alcohol consumption, they said.